Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam
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|branch= United States Navy
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|role= Communications support
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Naval Base Guam
Joint Region Marianas
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Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam (NCTS Guam) is a United States Navy communications facility on the U.S. territory of Guam. It is located on the Naval Base Guam North Finegayan Telecommunications Site{{cite web |title=North Finegayen |url=https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Regions/jrm/installations/navbase_guam/about/installations/north_finegayan/ |website=Commander, Joint Region Marianas |access-date=26 March 2021}} along Guam Highway 3 in Dededo, on the northwest coast of the island.
NCTS Guam is under the United States Tenth Fleet's Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific (NCTAMS PAC) and under the installation management authority of Joint Region Marianas. It has been variously referred to as Naval Communications Station Guam (NCS Guam), NCS or NCTS Finegayan, and North Finegayan.
NCTS Guam provides communications support in the areas of responsibility for the U.S. Third, Fifth, and Seventh Fleets.{{cite web |title=Mission and Vision |url=https://www.navifor.usff.navy.mil/nctamspac/NCTS-Guam/About-Us/Mission-and-Vision/ |website=Commander, Naval Information Forces |access-date=26 March 2021}}
History
The facility dates back to 1944, immediately after the 1944 Battle of Guam. It was previously designated Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Western Pacific (NCTAMS WESTPAC), before those responsibilities were merged with NCTAMS EASTPAC to form NCTAMS PAC in Honolulu in 2000, and the Guam facility was redesignated a NCTS.{{cite web |title=Naval Network Warfare Command [COMNAVNETWARCOM] |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/nnoc.htm |website=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=26 March 2021}}
NCTS Guam previously managed the Navy housing located at the separated but nearby South Finegayan military property. In 2020, Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz, located adjacent to NCTS Guam, was activated amid its construction.{{cite web |last1=Robson |first1=Seth |title=Naval Facilities Engineering Command on Guam |url=https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/new-base-expected-to-host-thousands-of-marines-begins-to-take-shape-on-guam-1.622106/naval-facilities-engineering-command-on-guam-1.622109 |website=Stars and Stripes |access-date=27 March 2021 |date=March 12, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Robson |first1=Seth |title=Marines Activate Camp Blaz on Guam, The Corps' First New Base Since 1952 |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/01/marines-activate-camp-blaz-guam-corps-first-new-base-1952.html |website=Military.com |access-date=27 March 2021 |language=en |date=1 October 2020}}
Base
Assets at NCTS Guam include or included:
- The Guam Remote Ground Terminal, one of three ground terminals of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, though controlled remotely by the White Sands Ground Terminal at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.{{cite web |last1=Mai |first1=Thuy |title=Guam Remote Ground Terminal (GRGT) |url=https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/services/overview/AntennaGallery-010.html |website=NASA |access-date=27 March 2021 |date=24 April 2015}}
- A contingency site for the Common User Digital Information Exchange System in case of congestion with the NCTAMS PAC or NCTAMS EURCENT, or a failure of the Naval Communications Processing and Routing System.{{cite web |title=Naval Communications Station, Guam |url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/finegayan.htm |website=GlobalSecurity.org |access-date=27 March 2021}}
- One of the 14 Cold War-era Navy AN/FRD-10 circular "Wullenweber" antenna arrays, shut down in 1999.{{cite web |url= http://www.navycthistory.com/WullenweberArticle.txt |title= Wullenweber Antenna Arrays |website= Navy CT History at navycthistory.com |first= Michael R. |last= Morris |date= 27 May 2008 |access-date= 2 August 2015 }}
The coastline of NCTS Guam includes the NRHP-listed Haputo Beach Site,{{cite web|url=http://ns1.pacificnewscenter.com/images/stories/Draft_JRM_Access_Plan_Package_10Jul2014.pdf|title=Draft Joint Region Marianas Access Plan|publisher=Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas|accessdate=2015-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624162059/http://ns1.pacificnewscenter.com/images/stories/Draft_JRM_Access_Plan_Package_10Jul2014.pdf| page=12| archive-date=2015-06-24|url-status=dead}} which lies within the Navy's Haputo Ecological Reserve.{{cite web |last1=Tolentino |first1=Domenica |title=Haputo (Haputu) |url=https://www.guampedia.com/hapNational%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Guamuto/ |website=Guampedia |access-date=27 March 2021 |date=September 19, 2020}}
See also
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External links
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- {{main website|https://www.navifor.usff.navy.mil/ncts-guam/}}
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Computer and Telecommunications Station Guam
Category:Military installations of the United States in Guam
Category:United States Navy installations
Category:1944 establishments in Guam
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